{"id":6081,"date":"2013-07-19T14:08:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T18:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wrfalp.wordpress.com\/?p=6081"},"modified":"2018-07-23T09:53:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T13:53:13","slug":"morning-news-blue-green-algae-blooms-force-closure-of-bemus-point-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/morning-news-blue-green-algae-blooms-force-closure-of-bemus-point-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"MORNING NEWS: Blue-Green Algae Blooms Force Closure of Bemus Point Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEMUS POINT &#8211; Residents and visitors in Bemus Point are being forced to go elsewhere if they want to escape the heatwave by taking a dip in <strong>Chautauqua Lake<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The public beach in Bemus Point was closed Thursday after the <strong>County Health Department<\/strong> found unsafe levels of <strong>blue-green algae<\/strong>. \u00a0The closure came just a day after the health department issued a blue-green algae alert for all of Chautauqua Lake. Blue-green algae is a bacteria that creates a toxin. Ingesting it is harmful to your health. Health officials say the warm weather brings with it more blue-green algal blooms.<\/p>\n<p>Experts advise people and animals to stay out of the water where the blooms are found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEMUS POINT &#8211; Residents and visitors in Bemus Point are being forced to go elsewhere if they want to escape the heatwave by taking a dip in Chautauqua Lake. The public beach in Bemus Point was closed Thursday after the County Health Department found unsafe levels of blue-green algae. \u00a0The closure came just a day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[192,2550,3314,457],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3YlJ4-1A5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25932,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081\/revisions\/25932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}